MOTOROLA XOOM

The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES 2011 on January 5, 2011. It is the first tablet to run Android Honeycomb 3.0. It was released on February 24, 2011. It was launched with three other products: the Motorola Atrix, the Motorola Droid Bionic, and the Motorola cliq 2.

The Xoom supports up to 720p video playback. It features a 2 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet and a rear-facing 5 MP camera that records 720p video. The Xoom has a 1280×800 widescreen, 10.1-inch display and 3D graphics acceleration, as well as HDMI-out. It features a variety of sensors, including a gyroscope, a magnetometer, an accelerometer, and a barometer. The Xoom uses Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC. In January it was reported that the Xoom will come in a Wi-Fi only model as well as a 3G model through Verizon Wireless.Features

Video

The Motorola Xoom has support for the following video (H.263, H.264, MPEG4, VP8), and audio (AAC, AAC+, AMR NB, AMRWB, MP3, XMF) formats.

Software

The Xoom runs Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb, whose new features include a redesigned, tablet-optimized user interface, a 3D desktop purportedly taken from BumpTop (which Google acquired in April 2010), improved multitasking, a newly redesigned notification system, Google Maps 5 in 3D and browser enhancements including tabs, form auto-fill and bookmark syncing.

On February 23 Motorola Mobility announced that the Motorola Xoom would break its policy of locking down its devices by providing the gadget with an "unlockable/relockable bootloader that will enable developers to access hardware for development."

Accessories

The Motorola Xoom supports docking stations for charging and as a stand for viewing video. It also features Bluetooth keyboard support.

Available accessories include:

• Motorola Xoom Portfolio Case
• Motorola Xoom Dock
• Motorola Xoom HD Stereo Dock
• Motorola Xoom Wireless Keyboard

Features announced but not initially present

At first release, support for Adobe Flash and a microSD slot was not included. Adobe announced on the 11th March that Flash would be available for Android 3.0 devices on the 18th March and a predicted future software update will enable the microSD slot.  On 12th April it was reported that the developers at the XDA-developers forum have made the microSD slot functional on the Xoom tablet even before the next update. Motorola Xoom tablet did not support Flash on Day 1 of its release in US on February 22, 2011. Prior to release, no official statement has said whether the microSD slot will support SDHC or SDXC card families.